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Recent Events in en-usThu, 09 Aug 2018 16:48:10 PDT3600Digital Innovation, Platform Orientation and the Performance of IT Startupshttp://aisel.aisnet.org/icis2017/DigitalPlatforms/Presentations/23
http://aisel.aisnet.org/icis2017/DigitalPlatforms/Presentations/23Sun, 10 Dec 2017 00:00:00 PST
Digital innovation has become a central focus of information technology (IT) entrepreneuship. At the same time, digital platform business models and networked markets are widely recognized as key factor behind many big technology companies. Yet, the literature is dominated by a focus on big and successful platform business, whereas little attention is paid to the platform startups that fail. In this on-going study, we aim to understand how digital innovation and platform orientation improve IT startup performance. We draw from theories in innovation, digital platforms and dynamic capabilities to theorize the independent and joint effect of digital innovation and platform orientation on likelihood of a startup survival. Overall, the potential contribution lies in how our design allows presenting the first evidence that pursuing digital innovations may not be enough for IT startups to survive, and going further to delineate the conditions under which platform startups may survive and remain profitable.
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Divinus Oppong-Tawiah et al.The Effects of Programming Style on Open Source Collaborationhttp://aisel.aisnet.org/icis2017/DigitalPlatforms/Presentations/22
http://aisel.aisnet.org/icis2017/DigitalPlatforms/Presentations/22Sun, 10 Dec 2017 00:00:00 PST
Open source software (OSS) development has recently garnered much attention from both industry practitioners and academic researchers. However, existing research on OSS usually focus on the role of behavioral factors in affecting collaboration outcomes but has neglected to critically consider the nature of software itself. In this study, we seek to integrate collaboration factors and software factors in OSS collaboration. Specifically, we investigate the role of programming style in open source collaboration, where strict guidelines for coding are usually not enforced. We develop three implications of programming style on contributor, development and diffusion from a diversity perspective. Additionally, two team level factors that moderate the negative effects of programming style are discussed. A comprehensive measure for quantifying programming style is proposed and verified in our preliminary investigation. Our study is expected to contribute to the literature on OSS development, software engineering and diversity in distributed work groups.
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Zhiyi Wang et al.In Cloud we Trust? Normalization of Uncertainties in Platform Serviceshttp://aisel.aisnet.org/icis2017/DigitalPlatforms/Presentations/21
http://aisel.aisnet.org/icis2017/DigitalPlatforms/Presentations/21Sun, 10 Dec 2017 00:00:00 PST
Platform services — services that are provided to organizations through online platforms — are generating significant uncertainties for both the platform-provider and customer organizations, but how these uncertainties are managed and with what governance consequences are not well understood. I conducted an 18-month field study of a platform service in the enterprise cloud computing industry to examine these questions. I describe the dimensions of uncertainties associated with the platform and the platform-provider. I then identify four mechanisms that the platform-provider enacts — controlling through code, performing algorithmic governance, producing trust rhetoric, and establishing trust indicators — to manage the uncertainties. The first two mechanisms constitute platform work, while the latter two, trust work. Together, platform and trust work reconfigure the “arena of uncertainty” through a process of normalization. This study shows how platform-provider firms normalize the dimensions of uncertainties to their advantage, producing significant consequences for platform governance.
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arvind karunakaranEvolving Shared Platforms: An Imbrication Lenshttp://aisel.aisnet.org/icis2017/DigitalPlatforms/Presentations/20
http://aisel.aisnet.org/icis2017/DigitalPlatforms/Presentations/20Sun, 10 Dec 2017 00:00:00 PST
Shared platforms form a stable foundation for the integration of digital components by heterogeneous actors. These platforms are an emergent organizational form whose members seek interoperability through technological architectures constituted of a modular core, a standardized interface, and complementary extensions. Although extant IS research on such platforms primarily emphasizes the social aspects of platforms, there is a growing literature that also takes their material aspects into account. Here our objective is to contribute to this trend in sociomaterial theorizing of platforms by undertaking an imbricational analysis of a twelve-year shared platform initiative in the Swedish Road Haulage industry. Hence, we attempt to answer the following research question: “How do the participants’ coopetitive behavior and the platform’s technology architecture reciprocally shape the evolution of a shared platform?”We identify three organizational forms that are likely to emerge in the evolution of a shared platform and assess their respective implications for platform innovation
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Fatemeh Saadatmand et al.Multi-spatiality of Social Media Platforms: The Enactment of Trust in Fluid Spacehttp://aisel.aisnet.org/icis2017/DigitalPlatforms/Presentations/19
http://aisel.aisnet.org/icis2017/DigitalPlatforms/Presentations/19Sun, 10 Dec 2017 00:00:00 PST
This research explores how a firm engenders trust in and initiates relations with entities or actors lying in autonomous online communities or personal networks of its employees, but beyond the firm’s boundaries. It problematizes the boundaries of online communities and personal networks on a social media platform, and explores the engendering of trust in an Indian e-commerce firm by foreign designers who were initially reluctant to partner with it, through specific enactments of trust by diverse actors on the platform. By using the conceptual categories of network space and fluid space developed in Science and Technology Studies, this research shows that social media platforms provide integrated social contexts where spatial objects, like online communities and personal networks, occupy both network and fluid space, and hence exhibit multi-spatiality. Additionally, the transient fluidity of these objects is found to enable the enactment of trust and its subsequent import across the object’s boundaries.
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Divya Sharma et al.Exploring User-Created Digital Content Ecosystem: A Study of China’s Digital Celebrity Industryhttp://aisel.aisnet.org/icis2017/DigitalPlatforms/Presentations/18
http://aisel.aisnet.org/icis2017/DigitalPlatforms/Presentations/18Sun, 10 Dec 2017 00:00:00 PST
This paper explores the user-generated digital content ecosystem. User-generated content (UGC) is not new in Information Systems. Nonetheless, few research has looked in-depth the value of these content beyond marketing purposes. Considering the increasing variety of content that users can produce and the ease of distribution, the content industry has long been adapting to the disruptions, realizing that these self-generated contents can bring challenging management issues. This paper offers an analysis of the recent emergence of digital celebrities, or Wanghong in China. By adopting value co-creation as the theoretical lens, this study aims to 1) expand the contemporary understanding of UGC as the core product of digital content industry, shedding light on the economic value of self-generated content as part of creative and cultural industry, 2) articulate the evolution of the user-generated digital content ecosystem, providing an actionable view of ecosystem strategy.
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Wilson Hua et al.The Relationship Between Process Variability and Structural Connectivity in Open Source Software Developmenthttp://aisel.aisnet.org/icis2017/DigitalPlatforms/Presentations/17
http://aisel.aisnet.org/icis2017/DigitalPlatforms/Presentations/17Sun, 10 Dec 2017 00:00:00 PST
In this paper, we seek to extend existing knowledge on the fluidity nature of open source software (OSS) communities. We propose a theoretical framework to explain how development processes from different OSS communities converge to multiplicity through their structural connectivity. We empirically investigate 200 OSS projects in terms of their process sequences and network structures where process variability is measured by sequence dissimilarity and developer mobility is captured by overlap of membership, respectively. We conclude that the structural connection between OSS communities through membership overlap is associated with the similarity between their development processes. Implications, limitations and future orientations of the research are provided.
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Xinyu Li et al.Understanding the Emergence and Recombination of Distant Knowledge on Crowdsourcing Platformshttp://aisel.aisnet.org/icis2017/DigitalPlatforms/Presentations/16
http://aisel.aisnet.org/icis2017/DigitalPlatforms/Presentations/16Sun, 10 Dec 2017 00:00:00 PST
Crowdsourcing represents a powerful approach for organizations to engage in distant search and mobilize knowledge distributed amongst a diverse network of people. While organizations generally succeed in generating large amounts of knowledge, they frequently fail to identify useful ideas that have the potential to solve problems or serve as innovation. We combine text mining and network analysis to examine how such contributions emerge on crowdsourcing platforms and how organizations may identify them. We find that useful ideas typically originate from members in a crowd with only few network ties and that these contributions become especially useful when they are enriched with local knowledge provided by experienced members on the platform. We extend existing research by examining the effects of network relationships and knowledge (re)combination in crowdsourcing. We also discuss the potential of network analysis and text mining to support organizations in tracking the origin of contributions and analyzing their content.
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Marcel Rhyn et al.Fintech Platform Development: A Revelatory Case Study of a Chinese Microloan Startuphttp://aisel.aisnet.org/icis2017/DigitalPlatforms/Presentations/15
http://aisel.aisnet.org/icis2017/DigitalPlatforms/Presentations/15Sun, 10 Dec 2017 00:00:00 PST
Financial Technology (Fintech) is effecting a revolution in the global financial market, pushing industry incumbents to collaborate and integrate with the Fintech startups to provide more efficient solutions and improve customer experience. Most Fintech firms tend to be platform-based businesses, but yet, the process of Fintech Platform Development has not been studied to a significant degree. Toward tackling this knowledge gap, this research-in-progress paper presents an ongoing case study that is investigating the development of a Fintech platform that provides instalment-based retail services and microloans to students and youths in China. From our findings to date, a preliminary process model is presented that suggests that the process of Fintech Platform Development can traverse across three sequential stages: Value Definition, Stakeholder Empowerment and Co-Evolution. Each of the stages are marked by the employment of various platform development strategies, which in turn, leads to a number of distinct platform configurations.
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Yat Sze Evelyn NG et al.Visualizing Platform Hubs of Smart City Mobility Business Ecosystemshttp://aisel.aisnet.org/icis2017/DigitalPlatforms/Presentations/14
http://aisel.aisnet.org/icis2017/DigitalPlatforms/Presentations/14Sun, 10 Dec 2017 00:00:00 PST
Smart Cities are a recent vision in urban development policy targeting at improving all facets of urban life. In the context of urban mobility, ecosystems of firms, public authorities and other stakeholders emerge that collaborate to enable novel technology-based infrastructures and improve mobility services. Such developments often rest on platform hubs that integrate transportation and mobility-related information services as well as infrastructure means and devices. We present preliminary insights from an action research case study of a European metropolitan region currently pursuing a Smart City mobility initiative. We use ecosystem data to develop a “business ecosystem explorer” software prototype featuring several techniques to visualize the ecosystem. Potential contributions of our research include insights to using visualizations for innovation and governance of the mobility ecosystem and platforms, and to stimulating knowledge flows between ecosystem stakeholders groups and communities.
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